Courtesy of ru.wikipedia.org
The
Beautiful Socialite
Before there was Paris Hilton, there was
Dorothy Arnold. The beautiful young woman with everything going for
her-money, society, and a degree from Bryn Mawr, went shopping in Manhattan in
December 1910, when she disappeared. It wasn’t a case where she was acting peculiar,
not talking to anybody, and fading into the background like a ghost. The
socialite talked with a lot of people who knew her that day. Clerks had spoken
with her throughout the day that she vanished.
Strangely enough, her own family didn’t
feel the need to immediately report her disappearance. Her parents and family
kept it a secret and pursued a low-key investigation with Pinkerton Detective
Agency. After thousands of dollars spent on locating her, the quiet
investigation proved fruitless.
As awkward, and guilt filled as that
anemic attempt seems (they were a very private family), the lawyer who they hired funneled thousands of his own
hard earned cash into the investigation. You’re probably thinking, “Well, that’s
a lawyer who’s vested in his client’s interest!” But, as it so happens, he
escorted her to many functions, so he was emotionally attached to the case. He
searched everywhere for her too…in hospitals, morgues, jails, and throughout
the East Coast hoping that she had, at best, amnesia. The police even dragged
the river when her family finally decided to call them on a hunch that
she could have been killed in Central Park, and thrown in the river.
There was one suspect in the case. A man
with a crush on Miss Arnold had been stocking her for years. He, however, had
an alibi. When the story hit newsstands, tips came in from all over the
country. She, or her dead body, never resurfaced.
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